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It is not necessarily at Nikon's end of the HDMI cable.
Atomos had a lawsuit with RED (which coincidentally, or not, was filed within weeks of Atomos announcing ProRes RAW recording) that was settled with them having to license RED's IP.
Whether this license has created additional hurdles/costs is one potential reason for the delay as it is in the Atomos end (ie the recording of a compressed RAW signal) where any infringement would occur.
Having said that, its also worth remembering I suppose that this will be the first camera that can record ProResRAW over HDMI rather than SDI so the delay could also be caused by the good old fashioned more prosaic reason of it needing a bit more work than was imagined
Mind you, based on my personal experience of buying RED products in the past, that is so much a part of their brand DNA that it wouldn't surprise me if they'd patented that as well !

I have to test again, but when I was interested in the Z6 raw update, I downloaded Prores sample files and I remember it did not work well on my PC. I have a beefy  configuration and have no problem using raw, h265 etc. But I repeat, I am not sure, just old "souvenirs"... and I remember I was disappointed cause I was eagerly waiting for the raw update ? I will try again and let you know (and it can also be a user error from me... in fact, must be that, cause I trust more Mattias than my memory ahah !).

Why would you need to convert on a PC? All the PCs Ive ever used edits Prores just fine.

Not just dumbed down, I think our ethics are slipping as well.
And the music.

Foreword from Amusing Ourselves To Death, 1991:
We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian Nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Country to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As we saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What well feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell was right.

Some much recommended light Summer holiday reading.

Whenever I feel depressed about the state of YouTube I have a laugh at Ethan's channel. One of the best at lampooning the worst of YouTube behaviour.
The medium, being a computer based algorithm, is not much cop at curating a culture.
So of course it has convinced people that fakery and lies are real... the biggest prank of all is Brexit.
It would be interesting to know which channels the young generation are aspiring to be like... Pewdiepie probably comes close to the top. Professional Fortnite players on Twitch maybe. It's not got much humanity in it... It's all very machine driven. After all, it's a machine driven medium.
Fake lives are now real lives. Fake news is now shaping the real agenda.
And in the eyes of the next generation, those pedalling the fake lives may as well be superstars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
Any old dated shit for an idea gets attention on YouTube if it has a hotness factor.
15 million views
Do you think next generation see themselves dicking around in posh house with a swimming pole making casual fair like this.
Do you reckon our culture is fucked?
Or am I just having an old man moment?

Some topics I am researching for a documentary at the moment...
I really like Adam Curtis on the BBC, he's made some incredible stuff. His collaboration with Massive Attack on a film with live sound track was a highlight. So was Bitter Lake. What stood out about that one, was his riff on the film Solaris... Our anamorphic LOMO favourite by Tarkovsky.
In the movie, the Russians encounter a planet which causes strange hallucinations on board the spacecraft, like the captain's dead wife appearing. As part of the research mission they notice that they can change the surface of the planet by irradiating it, not realising that all along the planet was irradiating them.
It is interesting, because at the same time the movie was made in the 1960's,  Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "the medium is the message". Here is where things get really spooky...
McLuhan claimed that the medium itself changes and impacts society, controlling "the scale and form of human association and action". Cinema for instance, is a medium that changes the concepts of speed and time. 
From Wikipedia:
I think what's happening, is that mediums are acting as a mirror and feedback loop. The medium of TV for instance influenced the message, the content and both together influenced society, which in turn was reflected back in the medium and the content, creating a feedback loop which has resulted in our modern times being as they are... I.e. pretty fucked up.
I have realised that today's social media and the internet have created an environment in the world, by its mere presence. Just like those first few lightbulbs and the first spark of electricity.
And this environment poses a severely underestimated danger.
And at this point it is worth mentioning a book from the early 1990's about show-business...
It's called Amused To Death, by Neil Postman.
Prophetic doesn't even begin to describe it.
"TV has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining spoonfuls of material" it claims, to the detriment rational public discourse. This guy was a lone voice at a time nobody could see the wood for the trees. He warns that there are real and present dangers from the age of show-biz and pop-culture, that all normal people ignore because it's "just entertainment".
Now fast forward to 2019. What do we have...
We have a culture that is utterly destroying itself.
The rational opinions, intellect, long-form content, long periods of single-minded focus, are dead. They are dying in each and every one of us, not just in society at large.
We're transitioning to a global digital medium that surpasses TV in influence by far. That's social media. Even the internet in terms of websites like this could be a thing of the past in just 5 years, reduced to just a Facebook group with content measured in sentences or single phrases, and discourse measured in who can shout me down the loudest.
I'd love to know what Postman would think of this if he wrote Amused to Death today, as it makes TV make positively tame, as a force for change in society.
Just like that supernatural, dangerous planet in Solaris, we're being irradiated.
The digital world is a dangerous form of inhumane radiation, like acid rain to an old building.
Our culture is changing.
Our kids are carrying knives.
Our politicians are tweeting.
Instability is increasing.
And the music... FUCK. The music is getting REALLY SHITTY.

i kno rite! beatmaking is SO cool
 
i mean, to ME, if u make beats on your iphone, thats pretty darn cool. so, if u make beats on an iPAD... well, thats kinda next level, huh?
and having a drum machine or literally any kind of dedicated hardware for making these noises... wow.... uhm yeah. thats like owning a goddam stradivarius violin. to me. so
its all p impressive tbh

http://bullettmedia.com/article/pixelface-is-the-loudest-artist-on-the-internet/
 
some backstory on the director.  Reading that, maybe the BTS video is the art... maybe there isn’t even a music video.

maybe bc for the vast majority of us, its a buggy/crashing nightmare. 

Whats with the anti-premiere topics lately? If you don't like the product don't use it. Premiere has it's flaws like all the video editing programs but it's still reliable and has been solid for me tbh

I have had some terrible experiences with autofocus on Panasonics. Plus, I also realised that I am terrible with pulling manual focus too (on moving subjects). I have to therefore, do very precise blocking for scenes, and ask actors to be more concerned with how and where they move, rather than their expressions or other things.
Maybe I should try the focus transition with touch focus, and do it like a little choreographed thing with step by step movements.
Maybe we could have a separate thread, where people discuss their focussing tricks, and now they nail focus on cameras that don't have PDAF. Especially for moving subjects. 
 
 

I dislike Canon's apathy to offer even the basic video tools on a reasonably priced hybrid for 2019 - so I can not logically invest on any of their bodies, but from a6xxx to FS7mkII the color science is pathetic. 
Even now, that I was in the market for a new camera, and probably system, decided to keep my NX for another year and buy the P4K as a more specialized video toy, with extra m43 and EF lenses. All in all, close to an 8000€ investment. I could easily choose an A7iii, but it ain't yet right and I can't wait them out forever.
I see now that the A7Riv has, again, little ergonomical details improved, I mean, come on, Samsung did it in their FIRST TRY, and Sony has to reach version 8 or 9 to make it right, and we will see until then..
I vote everyone else, except Sony!

I’m filming with a super 16 mm film camera in 2019 so I wouldn’t worry

There needs to be some sort of external DAC for all these things.
Or rather external A/D.
For example a USB C mic adapter would be good for something like the Ninja or a mirrorless cam... bypass all that noisy analogy circuitry.

That's what I've been saying: someone should make a camera that records audio from a USB audio interface. Lossless multi channel digital audio directly from the quality preamps of your choice, no post-syncing required.

I'm in the same boat and plan on riding the NX1 out for a bit longer and possibly grabbing another body as time goes by.
I also have a ton of Nikon glass, but pretty much all manual or AF-D Stuff, so I won't get AF on any new camera I buy. Still very interested in the Nikon Z stuff, but am able/happy to wait a bit longer for it all to shake out.

I always thought that the main earnings on YouTube are donations, am I wrong?

What about the Retina display YT laptop audience?
Try using a MacBook Pro for a month and then switch to a 1080p PC laptop.
Difference is enormous.
I'd say 4K matters more at these kind of close viewing distances than it does in the cinema.

On a recent trip my wife took pictures with her iPhone and I took video with the GH5.  We often took images from the same vantage points one after the other so there was ample room for comparison.  
One thing I noticed when I started grading the images was how lovely the iPhone photos were in terms of colour and processing.  I've got it on my list to try and break down the iPhone colour science to learn some stuff.
It's an interesting thing, the debate about convenience vs output.  A friend of mine who is into stills photography still uses his Canon 40D (or maybe it's even a 30D) because although he's done several major trips (eg, weeks going through Europe) and really tried to use his iPhone, he says that "the only photos I give the slightest f@#$ about came from the DSLR".  For him the matter is closed - no smartphone picture has ever done it for him so taking a picture with a smartphone is basically like throwing the moment away.
It's not like it's about anything other than the image either: he's a minimalist, hates the size and weight of the DSLR, he prints the odd picture but mostly they go out in a regular email update to friends and family, and he part owns and runs a tech company doing programming and virtualisation of services in the cloud.  He's the perfect person for a smartphone, a parent who values convenience, is completely connected online and has disposable income to buy whatever smartphone he'd like, but nope!
Do you think it's the shutter delay that gets in the way?  or something else specific that you can think of?
I've done street photography with both and apart from stealth, the real camera wins in every other department IMHO.

Exactly, some of you guys should keep their knickers on. No need to freak out about this stuff...

Nikon would be nuts to bank on outselling Sony with their 1st generation. I'm sure they are looking long term towards building an ecosystem as they gradually win over new customers as they look to upgrade their A7III's in a few years time. The Z6/7 was all about getting their name out there. And in that sense, they got their name out before the flood from Canon and Panasonic, yet they waited until they could output RAW video with their first model. No one expected floods of people to immediately jumping ship from Sony or from their DSLRs, Nikon just needed to get their name out so that anyone upgrading in the next two or three years has "Nikon" on their radar.
Cheap used Z6's are probably good for Nikon long term. Whether people buy in at list price or used for peanuts, they still need lenses and future bodies.

Do you really listen to Tony and his wife? Nikon sales have rebounded after the drop and why listen to people paid by Sony? 
My cameras not affected. Good luck!

If i water and fertilize it do you think it will grow ? ?

What are you? Cine-Trump?!
They guy was put on an asylum because he was right, and saved lives.
"Semmelweis was outraged by the indifference of the medical profession and began writing open and increasingly angry letters to prominent European obstetricians, at times denouncing them as irresponsible murderers. His contemporaries, including his wife, believed he was losing his mind and he was in 1865 committed to an asylum (mental institution). Semmelweis died there only 14 days later, possibly after being severely beaten by guards.
Semmelweis’ practice only earned widespread acceptance years after his death, when Louis Pasteur developed the germ theory of disease which offered a theoretical explanation for Semmelweis’ findings. Semmelweis is considered a pioneer of antiseptic procedures.
THE SEMMELWEIS REFLEX
The Semmelweis reflex or “Semmelweis effect” is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms."